Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America

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Leonard Heumann Duncan Boldy

Housing for the Elderly

Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America

Leonard Heumann, Duncan Boldy

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Routledge
03 November 2025

Homelessness; Age groups: the elderly; Care of the elderly; Personal & public health; Regional & area planning

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Aging

During the 1970s housing and social welfare policy as it affected the elderly was changing throughout Western society. Conventional high-rise apartments and institutionalized nursing or residential homes were no longer the sole public responses to housing the elderly. In place of these two extremes on the housing continuum was a variety of intermediate supportive systems that aided independent living. Assisted Independent Living (AIL) programmes were designed to keep the elderly in as independent a living environment as possible despite increasing functioning disabilities and frailties that often accompany advancing age.

Originally published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses its success under several variations in Great Britain. The British analysis focuses on those aspects of the sheltered housing programme that had wider relevance to the development of AIL housing policy in Europe and North America.

By: Leonard Heumann, Duncan Boldy
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781032697710
ISBN 10: 1032697717
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Aging
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 03 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leonard Heumann and Duncan Boldy